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New Report Shows Gap Between Utility Carbon Pledges and Climate Change Imperatives

GreenTechMedia

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Bringing Climate Change Solutions Home

Mosaic

97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and “extremely likely” due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels. as well as wind, hydropower, and bioenergy can replace coal, gas, and oil for power generation.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations.

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

GreenTechMedia

At the same time, climate change has begun directly impacting utilities — from hurricanes that have forced billions in recovery and grid-hardening costs for utilities like NextEra’s Florida Power & Light and Texas’s Oncor, to the wildfires that drove Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy. Today, no U.S.

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Is There Enough Biomass to Fuel the World? Part III

Mr. Sustainability

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. First, we need to realize that virtually all our energy needs (heating, transport, power) in every sector (buildings, industrial, transportation) can be performed by electricity. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”